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PINNED Respect $HOME/.config/go/env
After adding eval $(/path/to/goz-env) in .profile, each time I log in to OMVS, I get 3 or 4 lines about $COMPILER_PATH. Can you add config to turn this off, please? Second, even if I have $HOME/.config/go/env (per XDG spec), go env says that `go` ...

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Option to expose data conversion error in API response

z/OS Connect APIs return HTTP SC200 (OK) despite reporting many GMOMW0005E data conversion errors in the STDOUT. According to L2 support, this data conversion error is so pervasive that zCEE just log the error messages but move on to provide the A...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Future consideration

Export Omegamon/CICS Trace to file or sysout

The transaction TRACE in only available to consult using history option using 3270 screen. It would be good to save the TRACE and send it to the develoment team to analise the sequence of the programs and commands because they do not have access t...
5 months ago in IBM Z OMEGAMON for CICS / Product functionality 2 Functionality already exists

SMF26BYT and SMFBYU do not appear in Common Data Provider

Could you add these 2 fields please in the product DEFS ?
over 2 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 0 Future consideration

cazcnfg0: not all config statements accept symbols

in de cazcnfg0 parameter files there are statements where you can use system symbols which is very handy to make this parameter file system independant. But some other statements do not accept system symbols which makes it very confusing. The idea...
over 2 years ago in Application Performance Analyzer for z/OS 1 Not under consideration

zCEE: Support for WebSocket Clients

We have a requirement to establish WebSocket connection with our partner application to receive the various responses since the partner application supports only WebSocket API connection while sending its responses.
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 3 Not under consideration

New install option to disable Kerberos Authentication

We have Blue Prism RPA (Robotic Process Automation) in use to automate TN3270 access. If IBM Personal Communication is also installed on the same machine Blue Prism Login Agent is not connecting. This problem is caused by the Kerberos feature of P...
almost 4 years ago in IBM Personal Communications / Front End 1 Planned for future release

Avoid API Request failures when the API request/response structure has non-breaking changes.

Context: We are using z/OS Connect's API requester function to make ReST API calls from COBOL Batch programs. We use the Swagger definition (Open API 2.0) of the API, to build the API requester artifacts (COBOL Copybooks and ARA package) via zconb...
over 1 year ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

Option for generating Alternate Copybook Format for JSON

Support alternate format for generated CopyBooks generated by zconbt (or an alternate utility). Current format is proprietary to zCEE Requester. An alternate format could be processed directly by native JSON Parsing/Generation using COBOL and PLI ...
about 3 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Not under consideration

AD - Representing DL1 call graph/DB's in different annotation.

If common DL-1 service module “pgm-x’ having CBLTDLI is called by ‘pgm-1’ , ‘pgm-2’, ‘pgm-3’ for several business reasons, finally at the end AD generates 3 different call arrows towards different databases for same physical call in the service mo...
9 months ago in Application Discovery and Delivery Intelligence / Application Discovery 1 Future consideration

Running Distributed Gateway on zCX

Having Distributed Gateway running on zCX can help look into this solution a whole for Z. And there a much high processing power and more resources on Z than running on Kubernetes, it can help supporting huge transaction volumes for Mainframe appl...
9 months ago in IBM Z Application Performance Management Connect 0 Future consideration